Foau language

Foau
Doa
Abawiri
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
350 (2010)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 flh
Glottolog foau1240[2]

The Foau language, Abawiri, also known as Doa, is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is notable for its lack of nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.

References

  1. Foau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Foau". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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